Strategies for the Advanced Practice Provider Workforce

Healthcare organizations continue to face critical challenges in building and maintaining a high-performing clinical workforce. Demand for healthcare and by extension, for providers, continues to grow as the population ages and chronic conditions place ever-increasing burdens on both patients and the healthcare system.

Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) comprise an ever-growing portion of the clinical workforce and play a pivotal role in enabling organizations to not only survive but thrive in this environment. To build an engaged and resilient APP workforce, organizations must recruit top talent, retain that talent, and reimagine how their clinical workforce delivers care by optimizing not just APPs, but the entire care team.

This report integrates recent literature with Clinical Teams Insight data from 34 hospitals and almost 800 clinics to describe the current state of the clinical workforce and provide guidance for organizations on how to recruit and retain quality providers while reimagining the healthcare delivery model. The data in this report reflects 2021 processes and was collected in early 2022.